Principle consultant vs lead consultant

The differences between principle consultants and lead consultants can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. While it typically takes 2-4 years to become a principle consultant, becoming a lead consultant takes usually requires 4-6 years. Additionally, a principle consultant has an average salary of $111,572, which is higher than the $103,221 average annual salary of a lead consultant.

The top three skills for a principle consultant include client facing, project management and java. The most important skills for a lead consultant are customer service, digital transformation, and business process.

Principle consultant vs lead consultant overview

	Principle Consultant	Lead Consultant
Yearly salary	$111,572	$103,221
Hourly rate	$53.64	$49.63
Growth rate	11%	9%
Number of jobs	66,786	78,252
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 68%	Bachelor's Degree, 61%
Average age	44	43
Years of experience	4	6

Principle consultant vs lead consultant salary

Principle consultants and lead consultants have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Principle Consultant	Lead Consultant
Average salary	$111,572	$103,221
Salary range	Between $85,000 And $144,000	Between $80,000 And $132,000
Highest paying City	Washington, DC	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	New Jersey	Alaska
Best paying company	InfosysPublicService	Google
Best paying industry	Finance	Technology

Differences between principle consultant and lead consultant education

There are a few differences between a principle consultant and a lead consultant in terms of educational background:

	Principle Consultant	Lead Consultant
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 68%	Bachelor's Degree, 61%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	Northwestern University	Stanford University

Principle consultant vs lead consultant demographics

Here are the differences between principle consultants' and lead consultants' demographics:

	Principle Consultant	Lead Consultant
Average age	44	43
Gender ratio	Male, 79.8% Female, 20.2%	Male, 67.9% Female, 32.1%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 7.4% Unknown, 4.4% Hispanic or Latino, 8.5% Asian, 14.3% White, 65.2% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%	Black or African American, 9.9% Unknown, 5.0% Hispanic or Latino, 10.7% Asian, 19.5% White, 54.7% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%
LGBT Percentage	12%	8%

Differences between principle consultant and lead consultant duties and responsibilities

Principle consultant example responsibilities.

Manage design and development of cloud-base billing application for streamlining payroll and invoicing, as well as offering real-time business analytics.
Develop specifications as well as Java code and lead team of developers.
Collaborate with customer's business and technical leaders/staff to clarify requirements and design solutions with a tangible ROI.
Develop out-of-the-box SharePoint request system for digital content.
Develop applications using web services using with SharePoint services
Redesign several client-server base applications to a web-base services architecture.

Lead consultant example responsibilities.

Lead a team of 10 members including both onsite and offshore.
Create and manage financial feed from BW to Hyperion for corporate reporting and processing.
Manage design and development of cloud-base billing application for streamlining payroll and invoicing, as well as offering real-time business analytics.
Create mainframe XML parsers and XML generators using COBOL.
Work onsite at client's home office in Washington, DC.
Design and implement test cases for verifying proper behavior of a large & complex ERP project viz.

Principle consultant vs lead consultant skills

Common principle consultant skills

Client Facing, 10%
Project Management, 6%
Java, 6%
Data Warehouse, 5%
Healthcare, 4%
R, 4%

Common lead consultant skills

Customer Service, 11%
Digital Transformation, 10%
Business Process, 9%
Project Management, 5%
Architecture, 5%
App Development, 4%